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Bunnie explores dead Xbox 360, discovers non-fatal cracked solder balls

Posted Jan 22, 2008 at 4:08PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Microsoft, Ring of Death, xbox 360 titles

After someone who claims to be an insider discussed about what could be the truth behind the Microsoft Xbox 360's dreaded "red ring of death," Bunnie Studios' Andrew "Bunnie" Huang who previously visited Microsoft himself to talk about hacking the console did a test to find out how broken solder balls of broken Xbox 360 units are.

As explained by Bunnie on his blog, a process called Â“dye and pryÂ” was used. This method is done by flooding the motherboard with red ink which then flows into cracks in the solder balls. Looking at how much ink the balls absorb would reveal how damaged they actually are.

Bunnie went on to do the test on a broken Xbox 360 and came up with results that puzzled him. Apparently, the solder balls only have partial cracks - not something that would cause other electronic products to fail. Bunnie did note, however, that if the supposed insider was telling the truth about Microsoft cutting down on safety margins and design parameters, the 360 has enough reasons to experience the red ring of death.

The image on top, which can be found on Bunnie's blog, shows how many of the solder balls had cracks. To conclude, Bunnie Huang explained:

It makes sense that the summation of many partial failures could lead to a total system failure Â— failures that have symptoms that vaguely cluster together but are difficult to point to any single root cause.

Via Bunnie Studios

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The overall build of the 360 is crappy. Yes I so own a 360 and that gives me the right to ***** about it. My 360 clunked out on me 2 days after purchase and it wasn't even hot. then again right before the one year warranty expired ( thank God ) And I know what you're all going to say, " oh but the warranty was extended to 3 years" WRONG" Warranty on the red circle of death was extended to three years if you get any other fault on your 360 after a years time that is not the three red flashing lights then you're SOL. I own both consoles and love playing with both but as far as quality goes my PS3 is second to none, and my 360 feels and sounds cheap. I'm afraid to use it for extended periods of time. No such problem with my PS3. I can leave it on till the cows come home and nothing will happen.

# "Made in China" — lavino 2008-01-23 13:50

should pretty much sums it up

# RE: Bunnie explores dead Xbox 360, discovers non-fatal cracked solder balls — Guest 2010-02-17 21:07

PS3 is FAR superior to xbox 360. I've had a lot of experience working on both consoles. The first time I opened a PS3 after opening countless xbox 360's completely amazed me. There is no metaphor that can describe how much better the design of PS3's are. If the quailty of a PS3 and Xbox 360 were compared using objects in the universe, the ps3's quality would be equal to a million suns and the xbox 360 quality would be equal to a quark which is a fraction of a proton or neutron of a single atom. That might be underexaggerate d.

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